San Francisco Bay ropes, docks and pilings provide a home for abundant, colorful marine life.
Life Beneath the Bay Surface
June 27, 2022 •
Robin Agarwal
Robin Agarwal was a bug-and-tidepool kid who went astray and graduated with a liberal arts degree. In the last decade, she has returned to her childhood passions, photographing and writing about nudibranchs and other natural marvels. She is co-editor of the California Sea Slugs Guide on iNaturalist, where she is a curator with about 35,000 geotagged observations. Find out more at iNaturalist
They Live in Your Garden, Have Flexible Head Arrangements, and May or May Not Cause Problems. Meet the Land Planarians, About Which We Know Very Little.
May 24, 2022 •
“The time is ripe for biologists to unravel the diversity, ecology, and natural history of land flatworms,” one scientist writes
New Colony of a Rare Stingless Bee, Once Presumed Absent from California, Found By a Four-Year-Old in Palo Alto
June 3, 2021 •
Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found two more.